Marketing Industry

Outsourcing your company's web copywriting can be a painful endeavor, especially when you're working with an agency that may not be aware of the processes and personalities at your business. At the end of the day, however, everyone wants the same thing: a quality product.

Your business is far too important to trust to information that's of questionable authenticity, which can lead to lackluster results and lost revenue. These facts will open your mind and ensure your business decisions are based on fact, not fiction.

Now, like most people in the search industry who don't work for a search engine, I think strong competition in the market is not just healthy, but essential. Also, I think most people who know the search industry will be thinking that something seems not quite right about that claim, so let's take a look into this claim and see what we can turn up.

Think back to the last time you were outside just before a rainstorm. Remember the feeling of the wind bustling around you, kicking up a slight dust; remember seeing the sky darken into an eerie gray. Well, the Internet marketing landscape is beginning to look nearly as ominous.

Every agency owner would love to double his or her revenue. Most wish for more leads, a bigger marketing budget and a bigger sales team. But let’s take a look at another path, one that may not require additional team members and larger marketing budgets. Let’s talk about how good Sales and Account Management can increase your revenue and double your retention.

With SEO education readily available and debated endlessly, we can often feel like we understand more than the basics of SEO. Sometimes, we may feel like our education has plateaued and we aren't learning as fast. You think: "Yes, we understand how to run an on-page audit. We know what to look for in a backlink profile. We've done competitor and keyword analysis with Screaming Frog and Xenu, Soovle, UberSuggest and the Adwords Tool. We have started ping into the "new" stuff: content, video and mobile SEO. We have the right tools, we know how to rank for local and our clients are success stories.

In late 2010, Google publicly announced that site speed was a new signal introduced into their organic search-ranking algorithm. Despite the announcement, has not been an integral part of the SEO agenda and is still given a much lower priority than it deserves. Certainly, out of the box thinking in 2013 cannot be just about great content and natural links.

So as an agency whose world revolves largely around Google, how do we manage these algorithm updates? How do we react to each one and how does client retention look when it all goes south? Well this guide will help to protect you and your beloved clients from being at the mercy of Google.

But what about webmasters? Are all these changes really beneficial to those that are trying to promote their content legitimately? Webmasters will argue that they have allotted substantial time to making their site Google friendly - only to be prompted with another algorithm update.

Clicks on paid search listings beat out organic listings by nearly a 2:1 margin for keywords with high commercial intent in the US. Is SEO still a viable marketing tactic for the average small business owner?

I was in a meeting at Gap headquarters over a decade ago. The then CEO Mickey Drexler explained that “you cannot be everything to everybody” when asked about new clothing lines. This is excellent advice for just about any business but especially for SEOs.

How confident am I with my SEO company? Are they as good as they say they are? What have the results been? To help you make a decision with your current SEO company or your next SEO company, this post will go over some red flags that will tell you how good a SEO company really is.